UC Student Charged In New Year’s Day Firebomb Attack On Police Station

SANTA BARBARA (CBS) — A University of California student was in custody Wednesday in connection with a firebomb attack on a off-campus police station.

Keith Keiper (courtesy Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept.)

Investigators believe Keith Keiper, 23, of Oceanside, was solely responsible for the Jan. 1 attack on the Isla Vista Foot Patrol police station on the 6500 block of Trigo Road near the UC Santa Barbara campus.

Surveillance video footage shows a Molotov cocktail being hurled at the station and exploding in a fiery flame in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.

A similar firebombing at the station back on Nov. 15 is still under investigation. It was not clear whether investigators believe Keiper had any involvement with the November attack.